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The Goa Football Development Council (GFDC), one of the premier grassroots football development organisation in the state of Goa, has chalked out a one day program to celebrate the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Grassroots Day 2017 on Monday, May 15 for the fifth consecutive year. The event will be held at SAG Athletic Stadium in Bambolim from 2.30pm to 6.30pm.
According to Dr. Rufino Monteiro, the Chairman of GFDC, the one-day festival will be conducted as per the new guidelines issued by the AFC. “All Football which is Non-Professional / Non-Elite is part of Grassroots Football. Which means now Children’s Football, School Football, Futsal, Beach football, Women’s Football, Veterans Football, Community Football, Amateur Football, Disability Football comes within the ambit of the newly expanded definition of Grassroots as announced by the AFC,” he said.
“This year we are celebrating AFC Grassroots Day on Monday since our focus is on grassroots development. We have included differently abled youngsters to be part of our festival as an initiative to make the grassroots program all inclusive,” said GFDC Member Secretary, Aleixo Da Costa.
The event will start with two rounds of grassroots festival for the U-12 grassroot trainees of GFDC – 225 selected trainees from 30 centres – from 2.30pm to 4.05pm. Consequently, it will have slots for Special Olympics match (boys), Girls GFDC pre-academy match and veterans football match (50 plus) alongside the social cause with an appeal to youth to kick drugs and alcohol and play football.
All the events will be conducted by GFDC senior and grassroots coaches under the over-all supervision of Technical In-Charge of GFDC, Derryl D’Souza. The concluding function will be held at 6.10pm which will be graced by Goan football legend Bernard Pereira and current ISL player from FC Goa, Sahil Tavora.
